Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being canonical; canonicalness.
Wiktionary
- n. The degree to which something is canonical.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
Examples
“In his 1932 book Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction , T. S. Blakeney used the term canonicity in reference to the mystery novels and short fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle.”
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“Margaret Russett locates in these moments when magazine writing thematizes its own materiality an allegory of the minor Romantics 'insight that canonicity is not a quality inherent in the work but a product of the work's transmission.”
“Johnson had averred in the eighteenth century, that the test of canonicity is the test of time (440).”
“Appropriated from Am 4: 9, whose canonicity is thus sealed by”
“Its canonicity is certain; it is found in all Hebrew manuscripts of”
“My background in literature — particularly as taught at a rigorous undergraduate institution, and as taught by my professors, who challenged the notion of canonicity — made it easier for me to think critically about our collections and our collecting policies.”
“But Jerome seriously called their canonicity in question”
“[A note here on the notion of canonicity so fully discussed by Vanhoozer: were we to treat Scripture's limits as negotiable, we should be challenging the significance of the written character of scriptural revelation.”
'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture
“Another gentleman is not surprised that Apocalyptic reading leads to a doubt of the "canonicity" of the book: it ought not to rest on church testimony, but on visible miracle.”
“Intrepid authors such as S.T. Joshi, Robert M. Price, and Lin Carter -- to name just a few -- have paved the way for a place next to Poe on the Gothic pedestal of pseudo-canonicity for everyone's favorite mechanistic materialist.”
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